First Things RSS Feed - Richard E. Wentz https://www.firstthings.com/author/richard-e-wentz en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:49 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/richard-e-wentz 60 Theology Through the Looking Glass https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/02/theology-through-the-looking-glass https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/02/theology-through-the-looking-glass Fri, 01 Feb 1991 00:00:00 -0500 In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, Alice has been having quite a run through the Garden of Live Flowers. “I declare it’s marked out just like a large chessboard!” she says. “There ought to be some men moving about somewhere—and so there are!” Alice gets excited by all this. “It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn’t mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.”

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